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Any web server software set up in 2000 and still running today unpatched could be pwned quickly. Including and especially NT 4.0. When you're running a server,
by snowwrestler 7y ago
Any web server software set up in 2000 and still running today unpatched could be pwned quickly. Including and especially NT 4.0.
When you're running a server, TLS is not the only service you are dependent on; you're also dependent on security updates. If they're not backported, you'll need to make version upgrades.
Arguably it's better to think of every piece of software running on a server like it's a service, to maintain security and performance in an Internet full of hostile actors.
I don't even understand the mindset of wanting to run a live server on ancient software, aside from doing it as a hobby. In which case, it's pretty typical for such hobbies to require extra work and care. Driving around in a car from 1940s takes more maintenance work, and is less safe, than a modern car, and everyone gets that.
- morganvachon 7y agoI think you misunderstood my comment, I'm not advocating doing this. I was simply correcting the person above me who appears to be under the impression that web servers in the 90s ran on a client OS.